STUDY GUIDE
John 8: 32 -- And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
The following teaching is simple and self-explanatory. First an emotion, situation, or topic is mentioned and then a Scripture reference and the Scripture that relates to that topic follows. We, as Christians, continuing in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, must be spiritually sharp.
II Timothy 4: 2 -- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season [whether it's convenient or not]; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Scripture retemory (learning the Word by heart) is one of your most important KEYS TO POWER. A Teaching on
Meditating on God's Word is available to you on this renewed mind subject. If you do not know some Scriptures by heart, what are you going to do if someone asks you about God's Word and you don't have your Bible with you? That's not very convenient, correct? God want us to be ready in season and out of season -- convenient or not. The Word of God is just fantastic. It is the blueprint for living. For starters, we should know what and where God says something about a particular situation or topic. This study guide will help you in this area. Then you should go a step farther and learn as many Scriptures as you can by memory. Then when you are going about your day and come across an opportunity, you know what the Word says in that area. You repeat the Scripture in your mind and act on it, you defeat the opportunity, and you move on. That's how sharp God wants us to be and being ready with God's Word any time and all the time is how we live the more than abundant life promised in the gospel of John:
John 10: 10b -- I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
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Work on committing the following Scriptures to memory and help to paralyze your personal adversary. The devil and his devil spirits CANNOT STAND GOD’S WORD.
Say the Scripture first, then the verse, then the Scripture again.
DWELL ON PAST:
Philippians 3: 13 -- Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. -- Philippians 3: 13
WORRY:
John 14: 27 -- Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -- John 14: 27
DOUBT:
Luke 12: 29 -- And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. -- Luke 12: 29
FEAR:
II Timothy 1: 7 -- For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. -- II Timothy 1: 7
DISCOURAGEMENT:
Philippians 4: 13 -- I can do all things through Christ which [who] strengthens me. -- Philippians 4: 13
WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION:
Romans 1: 26, 27 -- For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. -- Romans 1: 26, 27
CONDEMNATION:
Romans 8: 1 -- There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. -- Romans 8: 1 [The verse ends here.]
HUMILITY:
James 4: 10 – Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. – James 4: 10
ANSWERS TO PRAYER:
Mark 11: 24 -- Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. -- Mark 11: 24
SPIRITUAL COMPETITION:
Ephesians 6: 12 -- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. -- Ephesians 6: 12
CORRUPT COMMUNICATION:
Ephesians 4: 29 -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. -- Ephesians 4: 29
STEALING:
Ephesians 4: 28 -- Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. -- Ephesians 4: 28
FORGIVENESS:
Ephesians 4: 32 -- And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- Ephesians 4: 32
RATIONALIZATION:
II Corinthians 10: 5 -- Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; -- II Corinthians 10: 5
ENVY:
James 3: 16 -- For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. -- James 3: 16
GOD FIRST AND FOREMOST:
Matthew 6: 33 -- But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. -- Matthew 6: 33
CHARITY (the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation):
Colossians 3: 14 -- And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. -- Colossians 3: 14
WITNESSING:
Philippians 2: 16 -- Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. -- Philippians 2: 16
COMPLAINING:
Philippians 2: 14 -- Do all things without murmurings and disputings: -- Philippians 2: 14
REVENGE:
Romans 12: 19 -- Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. -- Romans 12: 19
WHAT TO THINK ON:
Philippians 4: 8 -- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things. -- Philippians 4: 8
COMMITMENT:
I Corinthians 15: 58 --Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. -- I Corinthians 15: 58
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND WORDS:
Ephesians 4: 31 -- Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: -- Ephesians 4: 31
ANGER:
Psalm 37: 8 -- Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. -- Psalm 37: 8
LYING:
Ephesians 4: 25 -- Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. -- Ephesians 4: 25
HEALTH:
III John 2 -- Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. -- III John 2
OBESITY:
Philippians 3: 20 -- Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) -- Philippians 3: 20
ENJOYING LIFE:
Philippians 4: 12 -- I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. -- Philippians 4: 12
JEALOUSY:
Proverbs 6: 34 -- For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. -- Proverbs 6: 34
RECKLESS:
Ephesians 5: 15 -- See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, -- Ephesians 5: 15
UTILIZING TIME WISELY:
Ephesians 5: 16 -- Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. -- Ephesians 5: 16
SLOTHFUL:
Romans 12: 11 -- Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; -- Romans 12: 11
TEMPTATION:
I Corinthians 10: 13 -- There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. -- I Corinthians 10: 13
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